THE RETURN OF THE CHRIST - Part 3

I have here
given you the
possibilities with which the work is challenged and confronted,
and again I
must refuse to foretell what will happen. It is not permitted. I
have felt it
necessary to summarise the situation because it is in this world
that you and
all men of goodwill will have to work for the next twenty years;
this period of
settlement will not be an easy one in which the disciples of the
Christ have to
prepare for His appearance. The two decades ahead of you are
those in which you
must bring to fruition the seeds which I have planted. Though I
shall not be
actively and outwardly working with you or communicating with
you as I have
done over the past thirty years, you will have my books (which
will then be
finished) and the relation which I now hold to you and to all
the activities
which I have helped you to inaugurate will remain basically the
same; it will
be more subjective but many in the world today know the means of
reaching me.

The Christ, Whom
I serve as a
disciple, and the spiritual Hierarchy, of which I am a member,
are drawing
steadily nearer to humanity; in the past I have used the
statement to reassure
you, "The Hierarchy stands"; today I say to you, "The
Hierarchy is near."

The work that
must be done in
the two coming decades is as follows, and I shall not enlarge
upon it because
you have[641]
been trained to do it;
you know what
to do and the responsibility is yours—as will be my unfailing
help.

1. Prepare men
for the
reappearance of the Christ. This is your first and greatest
duty. The most
important part of that work is teaching men—on a large scale—to
use the
Invocation so that it becomes a world prayer and focusses the
invocative demand
of humanity.

2. Enlarge the
work of the
Triangles so that, subjectively and etherically, light and
goodwill may envelop
the earth.

3. Promote
ceaselessly the
work of World Goodwill, so that every nation may have its group
of men and
women dedicated to the establishing of right human relations.
You have the
nucleus, and expansion must be undertaken. You have the
principle of goodwill
present throughout the world; the task will be heavy indeed but
far from
impossible.

4. Undertake the
constant
distribution of my books, which contain much of the teaching for
the New Age.
In the last analysis, the books are your working tools and the
instruments
whereby you will train your workers. See that they are kept in
steady
circulation.

5. Endeavour to
make the
Wesak Festival (at the time of the May Full Moon) a universal
festival and
known to be of value to all men of all faiths. It is the
festival in which the
two divine Leaders, of the East and of the West, collaborate
together and work
in the closest spiritual union; the Christ and the Buddha use
this festival
each year as the point of inspiration for the coming year's
work. See that you
do likewise. The spiritual energies are then uniquely available.

6. Discover the
members of
the New Group of World Servers, whenever possible, and
strengthen their hands.
Look for them in every nation and expressing many lines of
thought and points
of view. Remember always that in doctrine and dogma, and in
techniques and
methods, they may differ widely from you, but in love of their
fellowmen, in
practical goodwill and in devotion to the establishing of right
human relations
they stand with you, they are your equals, and can probably
teach you much.

[642]

And now: What
shall I say to
you in closing, my comrades, my brothers and my co-disciples? I
have said to
you so much over the past years that there is little left to
say; you have all
you need wherewith to carry on the work, impulsed from the
Hierarchy, through
what I have attempted to do. I can only say that I have
confidence in you and
that I expect no slackening of effort from you. You are
dedicated and
consecrated and will remain so, for the closeness of the
Hierarchy and the
nearness of the Christ indicate to you increased sources of
strength.

May the blessing
of the One
Whom we all serve rest upon you all and upon all disciples
everywhere, and may
you do your full share in helping men to pass from darkness into
light and from
death to immortality.

THE
ASHRAMS CONCERNED AT THE COMING

June 1948

The Full Moon is
upon us and
the thoughts of the world (to a far larger extent than you
realise) are
directed towards the Christ. It is upon His concerns that I
speak to you today,
inextricably bound up, as they are, with the concerns of
humanity, and this by
His Own choice. Many today in all lands are turning their
thoughts consciously
to Him; others are aware of a vague turning towards some divine
Person or Power
Who must and should help mankind in its hour of need. There is a
rising, an
ascension of the spirit of man everywhere which is better known
to us than to
you, whose values and reactions are not so spiritual. The
strength, the power
and the special energies which He received at that dramatic
moment when He, the
Buddha and the Lord of the World created a Triangle of Light at
the time of the
Wesak Festival, will be released by Him at the hour of the Full
Moon of June.
This Light has been concentrated upon the "centre which we call
the race
of men," but it has not yet been released. At the Full Moon it
will be
poured out all over the Earth. During the interim between
reception and
distribution,[643] it has been
transformed into the energy of goodwill and into that light
which will illumine
the minds of men.

The Great
Invocation—now
being used by so many—has greatly facilitated the receptivity of
men; the
creative appearance of effective goodwill can, however, be some
time in
manifesting. Nevertheless, nothing can arrest its subtle working
and its
eventual widespread appearance, on a scale great enough to be
effective
throughout the whole world. This greatly to be desired
expression of divine
purpose will be fulfilled if humanity (as a whole)
stands in steady
expectancy, wise activity, and makes broad and brotherly
decisions. As I have
often told you, the final decisions in world affairs have to be
made through
mankind's deliberate choice; no compulsion is ever exerted by
the Hierarchy or
by the disciples of the Christ to force men to take some
desirable action.
Man's free will must be preserved. In an unique manner,
men are today
facing a period of the freeing of the human soul, or a period of
its
imprisonment indefinitely; the right decision will lead to the
Kingdom of God,
and the other to a retrogression which will deify the past and
prolong past
wrong action.

This outpouring
of spiritual
energy passes through the groups or (to use a technical word
which is
relatively unimportant) through the Ashrams of all the Masters
of the Wisdom,
the Disciples of the Christ. It is then transformed or
transmuted by them so as
to meet adequately the needs of the different types of people
who compose
humanity and who are represented in the Ashrams by different
Masters. Through
all the Masters and through all disciples this energy passes, so
that all—at
their many different stages—may receive the needed stimulation.
They
precipitate certain specialised aspects of this newly received
energy, and they
therefore will be peculiarly active in the coming period.

Five of the
Masters and Their
five Ashrams are primarily involved in this preparatory work.
There is first of
all the Ashram of the Master K.H., which is the presiding Ashram
in this work,
owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram, and therefore
upon the same
line of spiritual energy and descent as the Christ Himself.
Another reason is
that the[644]
Master K.H. will
assume the role of
World Teacher in the distant future when the Christ moves on to
higher and more
important work than dealing with the consciousness of humanity.
Next comes the
Master Morya and His Ashram, because the whole procedure is
projected from
Shamballa, and He is in close touch with that dynamic centre.
The Master R., as
the Lord of Civilisation, is necessarily closely involved in
this preparatory
work, and also because He is what has been called the Regent of
Europe. Another
Ashram is also very deeply concerned in this work; I have, at
times, referred
to the Master Who was responsible for the organisation of
Labour. This work He
began to do in the latter part of the nineteenth century, but
left it to carry
forward of its own momentum when Russia entered the field and
laid an undue
emphasis upon the proletariat during the revolution and in the
later years of
the first quarter of the twentieth century. I (D.K.) am the
fifth Master
concerned in this special work and am, as it were, the liaison
officer between
those active and conscious disciples who are working in the
world of outer
affairs and those directly responsible to the Christ for the
desired work of
preparation. Certain disciples from these five Ashrams or groups
have been (and
will be) especially trained for the work of contacting the
public.

The stimulation
which can be
given will be released at the coming Full Moon. The five
specialised energies
are as follows:

1. The
Energy of
Love-Wisdom. This energy always has an effect upon every
type of human
being in the world. Its effect is to stimulate the tendency
towards goodwill
and to produce a mental development which can transmute the
knowledge—garnered
down the ages—into wisdom. It is wisdom which is needed today.
Those who are now
attempting to foster goodwill in themselves and others will be
stimulated into
wise action. You can see, therefore, that the outpouring of this
energy is the
first and greatest need. It can reach mankind because
the Founders of
all the world religions (I refer not to their many
diversifications) are banded
together in[645] unison with the
Christ, Their Lord and Master; through Their united and directed
effort, these
energies will flow. Forget not that Christ represents the energy
of love and
the Buddha that of wisdom.

2. The
Energy of Will or
Power. The outpouring of this energy, owing to the "little
wills"
of the majority of men and the developed strenuous wills of
certain present
world Leaders, will not have as wide or potent an effect or
contact as may the
others. Its inflow will, however, serve to bring about a "fixed
intention" on the part of many to work ceaselessly for true
peace and
understanding. These people will therefore aid in the task of
implementing
goodwill. It will, nevertheless, strengthen the will of the
selfish, ambitious
and obstinate men who are in positions of power and influence,
and produce
increased trouble—at least temporarily. The salvation of the
world and the
production of the needed security will be brought about in the
long run by the
mass of men everywhere, in all lands; it will be the result of
an intensified
educational process. Humanity, as yet, does not know how to
handle wisely the
energy of the will-to-power, and it is largely this that has
handicapped the
manifestation of the will-to-good. The Shamballa force is too
strong for those
who are naturally wilful. In the case of certain potent men,
this energy
reaches them directly, and is not stepped down for them through
contact with
the Hierarchy of Love; it naturally expresses itself in the
political fields
and in the realm of governments, through rulers, officials,
statesmen and
politicians. When the "little wills" of the intelligentsia, of
those
who serve the public in some capacity or other, and those above
all who are working
in some connection with the United Nations, become strengthened,
stimulated and
focussed on goodwill, the union of the two energies of
Love-Wisdom and of Will
can bring about the needed changes in the planetary life. This
is not an
immediate happening, but it is not a visioning of the
impossible.

3. The
Energy of Active
Intelligence. This third type of energy is the easiest one
for modern
humanity to receive—which is perhaps a sad commentary upon man's
aspirations.[646] The proof of this lies in the fact that
much of this
type of energy (through the selfish perception and desires of
mankind) has been
crystallised into money. Human intelligence has served on
the side of
materialism and not on the side of the spiritual values. Money
is the
concretised expression of the third type of spiritual energy.
This particular
expression appeared first in the ancient and equally
materialistic system of
barter and exchange; then, in later civilisations (predominantly
including
ours) we have the appearance of money, made first from the
products of the
mineral kingdom, and then later came paper money, made from the
products of the
vegetable kingdom. This has culminated in the modern
preoccupation with money.
There is very deep occult meaning to be found in the statement
in the New
Testament that "the love of money is the root of all
evil". It is
largely money and selfishness which lie behind the present
disastrous economic
situation. Great financiers are in reality those in whom the
receipt of money,
or of this type of energy, constitutes the line of least
resistance, plus the
will to make vast fortunes, which cannot be gainsaid. They will
to make a
fortune; they bring their intelligence to bear upon their goal,
and naught can
stop them. Many of them are purely selfish; some regard their
money as a trust
to be used for others and are amazingly generous in a
philanthropic and
humanitarian sense. These men are receptive to the first type of
energy, and
frequently all the three types find a channel through them, and
the world is
greatly benefited; such men are nevertheless very rare. It still
remains for
the crystallised aspect of this third energy—money—to be used on
a large scale
for the furtherance of the work of the Hierarchy. It is at this
point and in
connection with money that the great test of goodwill should
demonstrate.

4. The
energy which
produces order. This is the energy of the seventh ray or
power of divinity.
At this time, its major expression will come through the
relationships and
adjustments required between capital and labour, and labour will
be primarily
involved. This energy is being assimilated in the Ashram of the
Master Whom I
mentioned above; at the [647] inception of the
industrial era He was responsible for the formation of the
labour movement—a
movement bringing into relation the workers of the world. It is
interesting to
have in mind that today labour functions internationally; it is
a group which
learns with rapidity and has in it the seeds of vast good; it is
probably the
group which will place goodwill in the forefront of human
thinking—upon a
pinnacle of thought. This Master to Whom I refer belongs to the
Ashram of the
Master R. He relieves Him of this phase of the work to be done.

5. The
energy of right
human relations. This energy is a subsidiary expression of
the energy of
Love-Wisdom—the first of the great outpouring energies. It
emanates, therefore,
from the subsidiary Ashram for which I am responsible. I have
written and
taught much about it, and with some success. "Right human
relations"
is not simply goodwill, as people seem to think; it is a product
or result of
goodwill and the instigator of constructive changes between
individuals,
communities and nations. About it I need not write, for you have
enough
teaching from me to guide you. Your daily actions will be those
of goodwill,
directed towards the establishing of right human relations if
you are
rightly oriented within the race of men and towards
the spiritual
Hierarchy.

These
energies—along with
others at this time far less potent and therefore of only
secondary
importance—will greatly stimulate the hearts and minds of men.
It is the task
of the Members of the Hierarchy to distribute these energies
(once they are
released by the Christ) to the working disciples on the physical
plane and to
the myriad aspirants in training for discipleship and to the
members of the New
Group of World Servers. Members of the New Group of World
Servers consist of
those who are completely dedicated to the service of humanity
and to the
establishing of right human relations under hierarchical
impression; aspirants
and quite a few disciples have diversified interests and only
serve part time.
To all these groups is committed the task of implementing the
work and
directing the energies for which the Christ is responsible. The
objectives of
the Hierarchy in this [648] divine act of
massed impression and stimulation are briefly three, as follows:

1. To bring
about those
conditions which will make the coming of the Christ possible.
The blended
influence of these energies will bring about what may at first
appear to be
undesirable results, because the remaining opposition of the
Forces of Evil is
still active and must be overcome; this may necessitate drastic
measures, but
great good will eventually appear.

2. To prepare
the minds of
men so that they may be ready for the influence of the Avatar
about Whom the
Scriptures speak. He is called the Avatar of Synthesis and His
influence will
be spread through the work and the activity of the Christ.

It must be
remembered that
synthesis is an aspect of the first divine characteristic, the
Will, or rather,
the Will-to-Good. This energy or influence, which the Christ
Himself will wield
(and for which He has been long preparing Himself), produces
cohesion, a
drawing together and a tendency to fusion and union. The
separateness of
humanity, and its selfishness, had reached such vast
proportions, and its
effects were so completely dominated by the Forces of Evil,
that—in response to
the massed inchoate demand of humanity—the Hierarchy called for
spiritual
interposition. The endless selfish propaganda, in speech or in
writing, most of
it materialistic, nationalistic and basically untrue and wrongly
motivated,
became such a clamour that it reached to spheres usually
impervious to the sounds
of earth; the Avatar of Synthesis was called in to aid.

The main
objective and the
immediate task of the Christ is to bring to an end the
separateness which
exists between man and man, family and family, community and
community, and
nation and nation.
This is a simple
statement, and one that can be understood easily by the most
ignorant; it is
simple also in that it provides a practical objective and task[649] for the smallest and the most
unimportant of the sons
of men; all can cooperate if they will. It is nevertheless a
task which has
required the mobilising of the entire planetary Hierarchy, and
the assistance
also of a great Being Who would normally work on levels of
consciousness higher
than those on which Christ and His disciples labour.

3. To stimulate
the
aspiration in the hearts of men so that human receptivity to the
good, the
beautiful and the true may be greatly increased. These energies
will bring in
the new creative era, which will sweep into expression as soon
as world tension
has subsided; then men will be free to think and to create the
new forms for
the new ideals; then they will bring into manifestation in
words, in colour, in
music and in sculptured forms the new revelation and the new
world which the
coming of Christ will inaugurate.

It will be
obvious (if you
have considered my words with care) that a great spiritual
movement is under
way—perhaps the greatest of all time, if we except the great
spiritual crisis
which brought the fourth kingdom into being, the human kingdom.
I have mentioned
above only three of the most important results for which the
Hierarchy hopes.
Humanity is deemed to have reached a point in evolution where
much can be done,
because the minds of men—for the first time on a worldwide
scale—are sensitive
to spiritual impression; the opportunity of the moment is
unique, because minds
everywhere are showing themselves superlatively receptive to
both good and
evil. Men are not today governed so much by blind impulse as by
considered
thought. There have always been small groups and rare souls who
have
demonstrated the capacity to respond to spiritual impression.
The line of least
resistance for the masses is the selfish impulse, and there lies
the major
point of attack by the Forces of Light.

The totalitarian
powers have
always realised and exploited this capacity of human beings to
be responsive to[650] good or bad impression. By impressing
certain
doctrines, certain principles and certain beliefs on their
people, and by
withholding the truth or the facts and ignoring the realities,
they contrive to
swing their people into an acceptance which means—for the
controlling
initiators—immense power.

Other nations,
the so-called
democracies, are in a state of great confusion, split into
political, religious
and social parties, listening to the teaching, the dreams and
the plans of
every person who has an idea and thrusts himself forward into
the public
consciousness, having no true or good policy, tainted by
selfishness (personal
or national, and sometimes both), and demanding the settlement
of material
affairs with small attention—if any—to the recognised spiritual
goals and
values.

There is
fortunately a
growing body of those of all faiths, or of no religious faith,
to be found in
every continent and nation who are aware of the stirring of this
spiritual
movement—linking humanity and the Hierarchy. This is due to
their reaction to
spiritual hope, to the expectancy and to the curiously
widespread belief that
divine intervention is possible and at hand. As the momentum of
this spiritual
activity develops, so will the responsiveness among men develop,
and if
the reaction is that which is hoped for, it will be the masses
everywhere who
will slowly unite to bring about the conditions needed for the
reappearance of
the Prince of Peace, bringing with Him the potency and the
benediction of the
Avatar of Synthesis. The number of these semi-enlightened people
is growing
fast; desperation is hastening their response to help from on
high, and in due
time their numbers will be so great that totalitarianism, as
well as chaotic
democracy, will not be able to stand against them.

This is no
mystical or
visionary dream with which I am presenting you. It involves hard
business sense
on the physical plane, a practical commonsense, a
cessation of the constant
presentation of a beautiful future in a mythical heaven of
idleness and
uselessness. The bringing in of the Kingdom of God, the
preparation for the
coming of the Christ and the salvaging of mankind demand
courage, organisation,
[651]
business acumen,
psychology and persistence; it needs
trained workers and much money; it calls for carefully
considered programmes,
possessing long range vision, plus sensible modern procedures.
It is to this
that all with true vision and a love of humanity are called
today; it means the
spreading of an intelligently cultivated goodwill and the
fostering of those
conditions, attitudes and points of view which will inevitably
bring about
right human relations.

I would call
your careful
attention to one most important matter. The moment that a point
of balance is
reached, the moment that those who stand for separateness and
materialism, for
totalitarianism or for any imposed regime (and
consequently an evil
unity), and those who stand for the freedom of the human soul,
for the rights
of the individual, for brotherhood and right human relations,
are equal in
force, in position and in influence, then the doors of
the Hierarchy
(symbolically speaking) will open, and the Christ with His
disciples will come.
This balance has to reach a point upon mental levels; it has to
be reached by
those who can think, who can influence, and in whose hands lies
the
responsibility for what the masses below the mental level know
and believe. The
unskilled labourer, the numerous people who never think, who are
only young in
the experience of incarnation, and the multitudes who evade
thought even when
they are capable of it, lie in the hands of two vast and
dominant groups: the
totalitarians and the democracies.

The consequences
of attaining
a point of balance are very close today. Organised evil is not
in power;
organised good is still quite ineffective, largely owing to the
failure of the
religions of the world to give a true picture of Christ's
mission; therefore
the struggle for control is with us now. If the forces
of evil, plus the
groups of men who seek control of the human spirit (no matter in
what country
they are found, and they can be found in every single country
without
exception), become dominant, the doors of evil will open and the
life of man
will lose its meaning; death will settle down upon our
planet—death both
spiritual and[652] mental. If the
forces of good, the work of the New Group of World Servers, and
the activities
of men of goodwill everywhere prevail, the doors of the
spiritual Hierarchy
will open and—to use a Biblical phrase—the Hosts of the Lord
will issue forth. The
Christ Will Come.

ORGANISING
THE ASHRAMS INTO FORM ON EARTH

June 1949

I would ask you,
at the time
of this Full Moon of June to spend a little time in visualising
the situation
which is likely to come about on Earth if and when (as a result
of the
preparatory work done by and for humanity), the Hierarchy is
externalised or
manifests itself as a definite and recognised organisation upon
the physical
plane. What will happen in the world if and when the Masters of
the Wisdom
function objectively and physically among people in—for
instance—our great
cities? For millions of years, They have worked behind the
scenes, utilising
the minds, brains and physical equipment of Their disciples in
order to carry
out Their beneficent purposes. Such workers under hierarchical
inspiration are
by no means mediumistic in their nature, but have established a
right
relationship with their own souls and with the Master of their
Ashram. They are
responsive to hierarchical impression; they know the plans which
the Masters
are endeavouring to carry out, and their cooperation is
willingly and
consciously given; they are left entirely free to work as they
see fit—after
due recognition of the information and the inspiration given.

Will this system
of working
on behalf of humanity come to an end? In what manner will the
effective and
needed changes be made? How will the proposed organisation take
place? Of how
much of these changes and organisation will average humanity be
aware? These
and many similar questions almost automatically arise in your
minds, and it is
essentially necessary that the creative imagination[653] of the advanced man, of aspirants, of
probationary
disciples (as well as that of the working disciple), does not
run riot,
creating those thoughtforms which could intervene between the
true vision and
the work to be done, and interfere therefore with the needed
manifestation. It
is exceedingly important that the following facts should be
realised: the
thinking of those who are preparing humanity for the
reappearance of the Christ
must be most closely guarded and controlled; wishful thinking
and the
formulation of plans in line with ordinary human methods and
techniques must
not be permitted at this time. The first lesson, therefore,
which you have to
learn in this work of preparation, is controlled thought and
sensitivity to
hierarchical impression.

The sole task
which confronts
you and all aspirants and disciples, is to prepare humanity for
two events:

1. The
organisation of
certain of the Masters' Ashrams in the different countries of
the world wherein
they can render effective service.

2. The
reappearance of the
Christ at a date somewhat later than the externalisation of the
Ashrams and
their physical plane organisation.

How, where, when
and in what
manner the Masters will make Their appearance is none of your
affair. Their
plans are laid, and They look for and expect no unthinking and
unintelligent
obstructions and assumptions from those to whom the task of
preparation is
committed. They have seen to it that the teaching of the New Age
has been given
to aspirants and disciples in the world, for distribution; They
are rapidly
admitting new disciples into Their Ashrams, and as fast as is
desirable and
permissible (for the Hierarchy works ever under law) They are
passing them into
the halls of initiation.

At the same
time, competent
disciples are searching the world for sensitive and willing
aspirants; these
disciples are laying their emphasis upon intelligence and
spiritual freedom,
working out as free and understanding cooperation;[654] these disciples will not be sidetracked
by the
devotion—unintelligently expressed—of the neophyte upon the
occult way. It is
occult students for whom search is now being made, and not
mystics; it is for
clear-thinking men and women that the call has gone forth, and
not for the
fanatic or for the person who sees nothing but the ideal, and
who is unable to
work successfully with situations and things as they are,
and who
cannot, therefore, apply the necessary and unavoidable
compromise.

The coming or
the advent of
the Hierarchy on earth will not bring the sudden and the
beneficent changes
which the enthusiastic desire. Every necessary evolutionary move
is always a
slow move. At no time will the Hierarchy infringe the natural
processes of
evolutionary growth or the normally slow development of the
various kingdoms in
nature towards divine expression. The Masters will, however,
take advantage of
all the points attained by these kingdoms, and They will (at
certain critical
times) utilise the more advanced specimens of the natural
types—in a selective
process—in order to bring in something new, better or different.
This applies
to the human kingdom just as much as it does to the vegetable,
for instance.
There is a line of thought for you in this statement.

One major
technique employed
by the Hierarchy is a constantly applied stimulation. Of this,
the effect of
the sun upon all life-forms is a symbol. It must however be
remembered that the
Masters have, therefore, to apply such stimulation
scientifically, working
first in one direction and then in another, modifying the
stimulation and the
inpouring stream of energy to meet a need; this They do in order
to produce the
desired result, and to bring to fruition that which is latent
within the
individual. They work with seven major types of energy; five of
these are now
in full use and two of them are rapidly coming into effective
service. It must
be borne in mind that I am here referring to the use of
stimulating, vivifying,
fructifying and mutable energies under what is called
(esoterically)
"scientific impression." These energies are:

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1. The
energy of prana;
this is the life-giving energy from the Sun which deals out both
life and
death, health and disease, according to the quality of the
substance or
material form upon which it makes its impact. This impact and
its results are
today entirely automatic in application and effectiveness, and
are regarded as
functioning "below the threshold of the consciousness" of
humanity,
and necessarily of the Hierarchy. Its rhythm is established and
its effects are
well known and proven. The direction of this energy will
eventually be in the
hands of that great planetary centre, Humanity; therefore, to
mankind will then
be committed the responsibility for its distribution to the
sub-human kingdoms
in nature.

2. The
energy of the
emotions or that of the astral plane. This energy is today
in a condition
of extra-ordinary activity, producing basic changes upon all
sides, stimulating
desire (both good and bad), and governing, via the solar plexus
centre, all
that lies below the diaphragm in the human vehicle of expression
upon etheric
and physical levels. This, when combined with a powerful inflow
of the energy
of prana, produces and stimulates every aspect of the animal
magnetism with
which every physical form is equipped; when combined with the
energy of mind,
it produces a magnetic personality, and this in both the good
and the bad
sense.

3. The
energy of the
mental plane. This is rapidly coming into an unique
potency and its effects
today are reaching down into the very depths of humanity, thus
bringing to the
surface the mental capacity which is latent in and hitherto
unused by the
masses of men everywhere. It can be described as pouring into
the human
consciousness by means of four divisions of mental energy:

a. The energy of
ideological
thought.

b. The energy of
religious
formulations; these are[656] in
process of creating great changes in the minds of men concerning
the religious
concepts of the world and the new spiritual values.

c. The energy
which is today
producing the struggle for freedom and liberation from
environing conditions.
This may express itself as the world fight (at this time) for
the freedom of
the will of men, as it expresses itself in the press, in speech,
in government,
or in the struggle for a deepened spiritual life for man. This
"energy of
liberation" was sensed, registered and voiced for humanity by
Franklin D.
Roosevelt in The Four Freedoms, so much discussed by men
today; he
thereby laid the foundation for the new civilisation and the new
world culture.

d. The energy of
the
spiritual Hierarchy of the planet, as it is applied today by the
Hierarchy in
the transmutation of the sad and sorry past of humanity into the
glorious
prospect of the New Era. This is, as you may well imagine, a
sevenfold energy,
emanating from and directed by the seven major Ashrams, under
the direction of
the Christ and of the senior Masters and Chohans, deciding in
council the
method, the extent and the quality of the distribution of the
energy involved;
They decide also where it should make its impact so as to
achieve the best and
the most constructive results. It is with this sevenfold energy
that the
Hierarchy will work in preparation for its physical plane
manifestation and for
the reappearance of the Christ.

4. The energy
of humanity
itself, organised and directed by the advanced thinkers
and workers in all
and every (and this I reiterate) branch of human executive work;
in every
educational process and in all political regimes. I would most
definitely
emphasise the widespread nature of this energy contact because
esoteric
students have very frequently[657] the
erroneous idea that the Hierarchy works only through the medium
of esoteric and
so-called occult groups. The more advanced a man may be, the
more sensitive to
impress he becomes, and the human race has now reached a point
of sensitivity
never before attained. This has happened through the agency of
the energies
listed above. Disciples and aspirants and the intelligentsia
everywhere and in
every land are today—consciously or unconsciously—responsive to
these four
energies; the closer they are affiliated with some Ashram in the
Hierarchy, the
more the sevenfold hierarchical energies can be distributed to
the rest of the
human family. It is therefore in this field that the major
hierarchical
endeavour will—during the next fifty years—express itself. Here,
consequently,
lies the fundamental problem confronting the Hierarchy, for
these energies must
be most carefully directed and their resultant impact be most
scientifically
considered if over-stimulation is to be avoided.

5. The energy
of the
second aspect of divinity, vaguely called by the mystics
of the past era
"the Christ consciousness." This naturally focusses through the
Christ Himself, standing as the Representative in the Hierarchy
of the solar
energy of love-wisdom. It is a form of peculiar, magnetic energy
of which mankind
today knows little; nevertheless, upon this energy much
speculation has been
permitted and many false thoughtforms have been built. It is a
dangerous energy
because of its exceeding potency and also because this inflowing
energy has to
use the vehicle of the substance of the three lower worlds, and
its area of
influence is on the three lower planes of human existence. This
at first
necessarily produces conflict, and its first major conflict is
now impending. I
have dealt with this conflict elsewhere when discussing with you
the fourth Ray
of Harmony through Conflict. [xv]*
The use of this second fundamental energy (which is the primary
energy of our
present solar system, focussing[658] upon
our planetary life) presents to Christ Himself a great test of
His skill in
action; its use constitutes the major test or task which faces
Him when He
reappears and has the responsibility of releasing its potencies
on earth. The
task of all disciples is consequently to promote wisdom,
and this they
must learn to do under the influence of the Buddha. He taught
the primary
lesson of mental discrimination and detachment—two basic
qualities which must
be called into activity during this amazing preparatory period
with which all
aspirants are today confronted.

These are,
therefore, the
points which all groups of disciples and spiritual workers must
learn to
present to seeking humanity. They concern the creating and the
vitalising of
the new world religion. This theme lies at the root of all that
is new:
discrimination between the mental approach and the soul
approach, thus learning
that true detachment which was symbolically but erroneously
applied by all
monastic orders throughout the world (both occidental and
oriental) during the
past few centuries, applied therefore in time and space but
having no relation
to the inner spiritual import. The true monastic spirit and
discipline will
emerge later in the historical processes of humanity.

6. The
energy of the first
divine aspect (that of will or power) now being applied
with the most
scrupulous care by Shamballa. This energy of the will is—as you
have been
taught—the potency of the life in all beings; it has in the past
only been
permitted to make contact with "the substance of humanity" via
the
Hierarchy. Lately, direct impact has been permitted
experimentally and of this
the world war (1914-1945) was the first evidence, clarifying
issues, presenting
opportunity, purifying human thinking and destroying the old and
worn-out
civilisation. It is an exceedingly dangerous energy and cannot
be applied in
fuller measure until the race of men has learned to respond more
adequately to
the energy of the second aspect of love-wisdom, and therefore to
the rule of
the Kingdom of God.

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7. There remains
another
energy which can only be applied very much later on and only if
the activity of
the six preceding energies fulfil their purpose. With it we
cannot here deal,
for the future is too uncertain, and in any case, it will only
come into
activity in the middle of the Aquarian Age.

These energies,
along with
the five specialised energies referred to in my June (1948) Full
Moon Message
will swing into great activity as the years slip away. The year
1952 will see
the five specialised energies assuming great potency.

I would again
call your
attention to the fact that the evocative power of the Great
Invocation (now
used by so many hundreds of thousands) and the sound of
its mantric
rhythm is increasingly responsible for this work; a great deal
of the resultant
effectiveness is due to the fact that humanity is using this
mantram in
steadily increasing numbers, and this—combined with its
scientific use by the
Hierarchy—is very fruitful in results. It is well here to bear
in mind that (to
quote an old sentence by one of the Masters) "where the
focus is, so
will be the anchorage where descending potencies under mantric
inspiration are
concerned." This means that, due to the effort of
countless thousands
of men and women everywhere, energies hitherto unable to
penetrate deeper into
substance than the hierarchical substance and the levels of the
higher mental
plane can now, for the first time, be successfully anchored on
dense physical
levels or at least upon etheric levels. This is a fact and is
far more
important than you are perhaps able to appreciate.

I have earlier
told you that
the five Masters concerned with the initial stages of the
organisation of the
Hierarchy on earth are the Master K.H., the Master Morya, the
Master R., the
Master Who started the labour movement in the modern world, and
myself, the
so-called Master D.K.

The division of
labour is
here of great interest. In my June message for 1948, I referred
to the five
specialised energies which were at that time released to carry
forward their[660] impersonal task. Each of these energies
is concerned
with the desired organisation, for it must ever be remembered
that though the
organisation which we are considering is concerned with the interior
or
subjective work of the Hierarchy, the repercussions and the
resultant effects
will take place on earth, with physical plane effects, because
the old occult
truism "as above, so below" will be rapidly and objectively
demonstrated. This result and the effects produced will
constitute one of the
modes whereby the Hierarchy will prove its factual presence on
earth.

The Ashram of
the Master K.H.
is already assuming an increased stimulating potency, but it
will nevertheless
be one of the last to manifest objectively on the physical
plane. The mission
of that Ashram is to produce the energy which will make possible
and definite
the reappearance of the Christ. That reappearance is the major
preoccupation of
the Master K.H. and His group of initiates and disciples. The
first step taken
by the Ashram was embodied—as far as all of you are concerned—in
the pamphlet entitled
The Reappearance of the Christ (Wesak Message, May 1947).
To this must
be added the vitalisation and the stimulation of the
two-thousand-year-old
thoughtform which men, down the centuries, have created in
anticipation of His
coming or advent. The movement toward expectancy and preparation
is now rapidly
gaining momentum. This was the first concrete result of the
combined desire of
this second ray Ashram. However, the work being done in this
Ashram is more
definitely concerned with three lines of activity. These are:

1. The
preparation of the
many combined Ashrams, leading to externalisation.

2. The
formulation of the
techniques and disciplines which will be of service to the
initiate or disciple
who is making the primary effort to function objectively, to
work before
the screen of life and not behind the scenes, as
hitherto, and to
develop that[661] "resistant
capacity" which is needed to withstand the violent impacts of
physical
plane living.

3. The mental
and spiritual
registration of the plans of the Christ, and the consequent
development of that
skill in action which will permit these plans to materialise
correctly.

Within the
second ray Ashram
of the Master K.H. and His affiliated groups (such as the Ashram
for which I am
responsible) it is the energy of wisdom which is being
effectively used. It
might be said that this dual energy, hitherto a fused and
blended energy, is
today working as a true duality. The energy of wisdom is active
within all the
Ashrams (on all rays and under all the Masters); the energy of
love is directed
primarily towards the third great planetary centre, Humanity,
stimulating the
aura of that mass of living units so that their "magnetic appeal
will be
the outstanding quality of their divine approach." The directing
Agents for
this dual activity are the Master K.H. and a chosen group of His
senior
initiates and disciples, of whom I am not one, because I have
another task
committed to me.

The Master K.H.
is therefore
constantly in close association with the Christ, the Head of the
Hierarchy.
Christ is today, with the aid of the Lord of the World and the
Buddha,
preparing Himself for the most difficult task with which He has
ever been
confronted. It is not a matter of the Christ issuing forth from
the High Place
where He is today to be found, and suddenly appearing among men;
it is not a
case of His taking infant form and growing into His work with
advancing years;
it is not a case of His being instantly recognised and acclaimed
by millions of
miserable human beings awaiting liberation. None of these ideas
or hopes form
any part of His plan, nor are they possible. No Member of the
Hierarchy, and
certainly not its Supreme Head, attempts to bring about results
which are
doomed to failure; presented thus, they would be bound to fail,
because the
point of sensitivity of humanity makes[662] failure
inevitable—if success is expected along these most ordinary
lines.

Skill in action,
wise and
understanding judgment, the adaptation of present affairs to the
desired
future, the coordination of the work to be done, and the clear
enunciation of
the platform upon which the new teaching must be founded, plus
the survey (if I
may so express it) of the foundations upon which the new
structure of the
coming civilisation must be founded—it is with these things that
the Christ is
at this time concerned. You can realise, therefore, the
tremendous and
cooperative activity with which the Master K.H. and His Ashram
are concerned.
The stimulation of that activity comes from two directions:
necessarily from Shamballa,
from the Buddha and from the Avatar of Synthesis, and
increasingly from the
world of men, as expectancy, hope and demand combine to make
their united
appeal.

The Ashram or
group centre
through which the Master Morya works is also exceedingly busy.
It is obvious to
you that as this is a first ray Ashram, the energy coming from
the Avatar of
Synthesis will make its primary impact upon this Ashram, which
provides the
line of least resistance. There, it is scientifically stepped
down or broken
down, prior to distribution to the Ashrams of the five Masters
engaged in the
work of preparation.

The highest
aspect possible
of assimilation by the Hierarchy is directed by the Masters
towards the Christ
and is used by Him in His individual and planned preparatory
work. Though He
demonstrated when here before that His mission or work had a
group or
brotherhood objective, it is well known in hierarchical circles
that first ray
synthesis is something higher still than unity, and that even
the Christ has
somewhat to grasp anent this new potency—coming both from
Shamballa or from the
Father (as the Christ used to call that emanating source), and
also from
extra-planetary sources. Above all, He has the difficult task of
training or
adapting His physical vehicle so that it can assimilate this
extra-ordinary
high potency and, at the same time, keep it[663] in a condition in which He can move
outward on the
physical plane among men.

The Christian
Church has laid
so much emphasis on Christ's unique position as the one and only
Son of God
that great error has crept in and has been fostered for
centuries; Christ
Himself foresaw the possibility of this error and tried to
offset it by
pointing out that we are all the "Sons of God" and that "greater
things than I do shall you do"—a statement which no commentators
have ever
understood or adequately explained. The occult fact is that
there is no being
on Earth, from the very lowest form of life to the very highest,
who is not
moving onward towards a greater and finer expression of
divinity, and Christ
Himself is no exception to this universal evolutionary law. He
is therefore, at
this time and because He is preparing to raise the entire human
family nearer
to God, laying Himself open to certain powerful inflowing
energies, absorbing
into Himself streams of spiritual force, and undergoing a
dynamic stimulation
which is entirely new to Him; this constitutes His testing for
the exalted
initiation which now confronts Him; it constitutes also the
sacrifice He is
making in order to complete His work on Earth and bring a new
salvation to
humanity.

The Christ is
working,
therefore, in very close cooperation with the Master Morya, and
also with the
Manu (one of the three Heads of the Hierarchy), and these
three—the Christ, the
Manu and the Master Morya—create a triangle of energies into
which (and through
which) the energy of the Avatar of Synthesis can pour, finding
right direction
under Their combined efforts.

On the physical
plane, the
initiates and the disciples working in the Ashram of the Master
Morya are
primarily occupied with the expression of synthesis in the world
of politics
and of government, and with offsetting wrong approaches to
synthesis, seeking
to preserve freedom in unity. It is a subjective synthesis for
which they work—a
synthesis which will express itself in an outer differentiation.
This synthesis
will define the many aspects of the essential, basic[664] unity which, working out under the
stimulation of the
energy of synthesis, will bring about eventual peace and
understanding on
earth—a peace which will preserve individual and national
cultures, but which
will subordinate them to the good of the whole of humanity.

We come now to
the
preparatory work being done by the Master Who started what is
called by you
"the labour movement." This is regarded by the Hierarchy as one
of
the most successful attempts in all history to awaken the masses
of men (in the
brackets called middle class and lower class) to general
betterment, and thus
set up a momentum which would, occultly speaking, "swing them
into
light."

Along with the
development of
the labour movement, mass education came into being, with the
result that—from
the angle of developed intelligence—the entire level of
conscious awareness was
universally raised. There is still much illiteracy, but the
average citizen in
all the western democracies and in the Soviet Union is as well
educated as the
intellectual man in the Middle Ages. You have, in this activity,
an outstanding
instance of how the Masters work, for (to the average onlooker)
the labour
movement arose from within the masses and the working classes;
it was a
spontaneous development, based upon the thinking and the
teaching of a mere
handful of men who were regarded primarily as agitators and
trouble makers;
they were in reality a group of disciples (many of them
unconscious of their
esoteric status) who were cooperating with the Law of Evolution
and also with
the hierarchical Plan. They were not particularly advanced
disciples, but they
were affiliated with some Ashram (according to their
ray), and were
therefore subject to impression. Had they been advanced
disciples or initiates,
their work would have been futile, for their presentation of the
Plan would not
have been adapted to the level of the intelligence of the then
totally
uneducated masses composing labour.